Pablo Picasso

Spanish, 1881–1973

L’AIGLE and LE POUSSIN, 1907

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Medium: woodcut
Size: 9.5 x 6.12 in. (24.1 x 15.5 cm.)
Markings: Signed in pencil

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Marc Rosen Fine Art, Ltd.

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About this Artwork

Edition: none
Size Notes: Sheet size 9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.
Movement: Modern Art
Catalogue Raisonné: Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur (Suite aux catalogues de Bernhard Geiser), Berne, Editions Kornfeld, 1990, Vol. I, nos. 213 and 214
Provenance: Henri M. Petiet, Paris
Heirs of Henri M. Petiet, Paris
The present, unique impression of both subjects printed together, which Baer did not cite, may have once belonged to Bernard Geiser, the first cataloguer of Picasso’s prints, since Geiser illustrated it in black and white in his introduction to the catalogue, Pablo Picasso: Fifty-Five Years of His Graphic Work.
Exhibitions: Picasso / Vollard: Prints from the Stock of the Artist's Publisher. Marc Rosen Fine Art at Adelson Galleries, New York, October 6 -- November 14, 2015, illustrated.
Literature: Pablo Picasso: Fifty-Five Years of His Graphic Work, introduction and selection by Bernhard Geiser, biography and documentation by Hans Boliger, translated by Lisbeth Gombrich, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York and Amsterdam, copyright 1965: Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, West Germany, illustration no. 10 [In list of illustrations as “The Chicken and the Eagle”. 1906. G 214 and 213. Woodcut, 2 ½ x 1 7/8”; 2 3/8 x 2 ¾”.]

Description

Two woodcuts, carved by the artist on a single block of fruitwood, hand-printed by him in black and blue gouache on a sheet of lightweight wove paper
This appears to be the only known example in which Picasso printed the two subjects together.
Only a small number of the separate images (in varying colors) were printed: four of L’Aigle and seven of Le Poussin.

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